Reaffirming Our Vision

“UB is making sustained and remarkable progress as one of the world’s great research universities. This progress hinges on the excellence of every member of our university community.”

Satish K. Tripathi, President

University at Buffalo

Dear University Community:

As I wrote in early April, a team of evaluators from the Middle
States Commission on Higher Education spent three days at the
beginning of that month visiting UB as the final stage of our
university’s decennial reaccreditation review. Over the
course of their many meetings and discussions with UB community
members, the chair and other members of the Middle States review
team repeatedly expressed their very positive impressions of our
university and the tremendous progress we have made over the past
decade.

The accreditation process is an important way to measure our
advancement as we continually work to enhance educational
excellence and achieve our strategic objectives. The process of
accreditation is not a one-time event that occurs every ten years.
This is an ongoing institutional process, and one which confirms
our university is on course to realize the ambitious goals we have
articulated through the UB 2020 vision.

I want to express my deep appreciation to the hundreds of
faculty, staff, and students across UB who have devoted their
energy and expertise to this university-wide effort toward
reaccreditation.

As the Middle States Commission on Higher Education has
affirmed, UB is making sustained and remarkable progress as one of
the world’s great research universities. This progress
hinges on the excellence of every member of our university
community, and I want to thank each of you for all you contribute
as we build even further on this success in the years to come.

With best regards,

Satish K. Tripathi

President

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